What I like about a fest such as Sundance, is that it’s not only a place where we’ll find semi-star vehicle material with players in the indie biz, but they also launch the careers of new directors and is loaded with fresh faces. King Jack is the type of film that falls into the later category. Two time SXSW short filmmaker Felix Thompson began filming in this past summer and while we think there is a great deal of polishing involved, the pic, which was selected for the Sundance Institute Creative Producing Lab fellow program has a legit shot.
Gist: Starring Christian Madsen, Charlie Plummer, Danny Flaherty, Cory Nichols and Erin Davie, when shouldered with the responsibility of watching his younger cousin for the weekend, a delinquent 15 year-old (Plummer) finds himself stumbling towards maturity while struggling against the neighborhood bully.
Production Co./Producers: Buffalo Picture House’s Gabrielle Nadig,...
Gist: Starring Christian Madsen, Charlie Plummer, Danny Flaherty, Cory Nichols and Erin Davie, when shouldered with the responsibility of watching his younger cousin for the weekend, a delinquent 15 year-old (Plummer) finds himself stumbling towards maturity while struggling against the neighborhood bully.
Production Co./Producers: Buffalo Picture House’s Gabrielle Nadig,...
- 11/12/2014
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
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Exclusive: Marks the first feature from commercials director Rohan Blair-Mangat.
Shooting has begun in New York City on The Boombox Project, the first feature from award-winning commercials director Rohan Blair-Mangat.
Further locations in the documentary’s multi-territory shoot will include Miami, Los Angeles, London, Brazil and Tokyo.
The film is co-written by Blair-Mangat and Lyle Owerko and draws inspiration from Owerko’s 2010 book The Boombox Project: The Machines, the Music, and the Urban Underground, which includes a foreward from Spike Lee.
The documentary explores how an iconic piece of machinery helped shape music and society on both sides of the Atlantic in the ’70s and ’80s, examining its place in the rise of hip-hop and punk.
From the boombox’s origins as a ‘sonic campfire’ for urban youth to share music and ideas to its gradual re-appropriation in popular culture with the emergence of the Walkman, MTV and the CD player, the film considers...
Shooting has begun in New York City on The Boombox Project, the first feature from award-winning commercials director Rohan Blair-Mangat.
Further locations in the documentary’s multi-territory shoot will include Miami, Los Angeles, London, Brazil and Tokyo.
The film is co-written by Blair-Mangat and Lyle Owerko and draws inspiration from Owerko’s 2010 book The Boombox Project: The Machines, the Music, and the Urban Underground, which includes a foreward from Spike Lee.
The documentary explores how an iconic piece of machinery helped shape music and society on both sides of the Atlantic in the ’70s and ’80s, examining its place in the rise of hip-hop and punk.
From the boombox’s origins as a ‘sonic campfire’ for urban youth to share music and ideas to its gradual re-appropriation in popular culture with the emergence of the Walkman, MTV and the CD player, the film considers...
- 9/26/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
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Summer shoot due for Sundance Creative Producing Labs feature.
Christian Madsen, Charlie Plummer, Danny Flaherty, Cory Nichols and Erin Davie are set to star in writer-director Felix Thompson’s debut feature King Jack.
The Sundance Creative Producing Labs feature, due to shoot this summer, is produced by Buffalo Picture House, Whitewater Films and Stink Films.
King Jack tells the tale of a delinquent fifteen year old (Plummer) who is forced to look after his younger cousin one weekend while trying to tackle the local neighborhood bully.
Producers are Gabrielle Nadig, a Sundance Institute Creative Producing Lab fellow, and Lilting producer Dominic Buchanan,
Nadig previously worked for Killer Films before setting up New York-based Buffalo Picture House with Thompson.
Rick Rosenthal, Bert Kern and Nick Morton exec produce for Whitewater, and Daniel Bergmann and Martin Forbes exec for Stink. Corey Deckler coproduces.
Christian Madsen, Charlie Plummer, Danny Flaherty, Cory Nichols and Erin Davie are set to star in writer-director Felix Thompson’s debut feature King Jack.
The Sundance Creative Producing Labs feature, due to shoot this summer, is produced by Buffalo Picture House, Whitewater Films and Stink Films.
King Jack tells the tale of a delinquent fifteen year old (Plummer) who is forced to look after his younger cousin one weekend while trying to tackle the local neighborhood bully.
Producers are Gabrielle Nadig, a Sundance Institute Creative Producing Lab fellow, and Lilting producer Dominic Buchanan,
Nadig previously worked for Killer Films before setting up New York-based Buffalo Picture House with Thompson.
Rick Rosenthal, Bert Kern and Nick Morton exec produce for Whitewater, and Daniel Bergmann and Martin Forbes exec for Stink. Corey Deckler coproduces.
- 7/15/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
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